![]() “Bigger the population, the more minorities. It is the book’s antihero, Beatty, who provides us with the most concise summary of how book destruction first came to pass. The book was written in the McCarthy era. Why are books a danger to society? Why should they be destroyed? The origins of Bradbury’s anti-utopia stem all the way from the horror he felt at learning about the burning of the library of Alexandria and the book destruction in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. ![]() Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which books burn. But since all houses are now built to be fireproof, he has only one job: to burn all existing books. Like in 1984, the world is also plagued by nuclear conflict.īut Fahrenheit 451 focuses specifically on one form of oppression: the censorship of books. Like 1984, Fahrenheit 451 is a novel with a third person narrator, but the narration follows the main character closely enough to often verge into free indirect discourse. ![]() Like The Handmaiden’s Tale, the novel is set in an America in which things went badly wrong. I haven’t read that many anti-utopias: only Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaiden’s Tale. I picked it up at a 2 for £5 sale and waited a week or two before I was in the mood to read it (this, by the way, is a very short wait on my to read shelf). ![]() This is a book from my classic book club list. ![]()
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